1. Community-based adaptation & Communicating climate change
Solomon Islands Government

2. Outline Localising vulnerability assessments
from regional to local knowledge
Community-based adaptation
Communicating climate change
Community capacity and participation

3. ? The Challenge Exposure Sensitivity Adaptive capacity
Potential impact
Vulnerability ?

4. Community-based adaptation
Resources are often limited
Multi-sector (e.g. fisheries, agriculture, forestry)
Use existing knowledge and information
Scaling down from regional to community level
Long-term community capacity
Pathway from assessment to action

5. Existing knowledge and information
Main food sources and livelihood activities
Important community assets & values
Links between climate and activities
Past response to change (e.g. natural disasters)
Current environmental & social issues
Future issues (e.g. climate change, access to markets)

6. Assessment to action Community knowledge Existing information
Community adaptation
actions
review & revise
Future vision
range of options
desirable
Drivers of change
current issues
climate change
Existing information
climate
resource condition
Community knowledge
key activities
assets & values
Assessment to action

7. Building resilient futures
Torres Strait
October 2012
A participatory approach for determining adaptation actions and considerations for their implementation

8. Planning implementation
Pathway to Adaptation
Scoping
Current and likely future impacts of climate change?
Desirable future for farming and fishing
(iii) Adaptation actions to address impacts and reach desired future
Identifying options
Evaluation of options
Describe adaptations and their cost
(ii) People, organisations and institutions to facilitate adaptations
(iii) Likely impact of the adaptations on the natural resource
Planning implementation
Best adaptations to employ
Social, economic or environmental triggers to start implementing
Fishing & farming livelihoods:
key issues
(ii) drivers of change
Action research

9. 9
Current climate How do current trends in temperature and rainfall affect fishing and farming activities?
Source: S. Park (WFC)

10. Future: options & vision

11. Community knowledge Existing information Drivers of change
Community adaptation
actions
review & revise
Future vision
range of options
desirable
Drivers of change
current issues
climate change
Existing information
climate
resource condition
Community knowledge
key activities
assets & values

12. Communicating climate change
Raise awareness of climate change to assist with decision-making & planning
Understand climate change issues and concepts before talking to others
Community needs to understand and support adaptation activities
Link to local culture, environment and social context (e.g. high dependence on fish for food)
Find ways to include climate change into existing initiatives (e.g. EAFM)
Build on people’s knowledge and experiences

13. Communication tools KEEP MESSAGES SIMPLE
Workshops – village, schools, youth and women’s groups, council meetings
Videos – awareness programs, target difference ages, language groups
Media – Newspaper, TV, radio
Information sheets & posters
Interactive activities – poster competitions, open days, school quizzes, radio talk shows
KEEP MESSAGES SIMPLE

14. Communicating: posters/notices

15. Communicating: books

16. Communicating: present
Lobster life cycle

17. Communicating: the future

18. Community participation

19. Challenges Communicating complex concepts in simple language
Building local capacity and maintaining motivation
Working with remote communities
Self governance takes longer but often more effective than regulation

20. Local knowledge provides relevance
Conclusions
Incorporate traditional knowledge into adaptation strategies
Work across scales (local, national, regional) and sectors (fisheries, forestry, agriculture)
Largely participatory; building local capacity
Rapid and action-orientated
Local knowledge provides relevance

21. Thank you